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Dental Blog - Category: Dental News
More Dental Check-Ups Recommended for Post-Menopausal Women
March 15th, 2011
We always hear about the need to have two dental checkups every year. Recent studies show that post-menopausal women may be required to have more than the recommended twice a year visit to the dentist. More frequent dental checkups for menopausal women resulted from the recent findings from the research made by the Cleveland Clinic [...]
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More Successful Dental Implants with Bone-Creating Protein
March 8th, 2011
Dental implants could look forward to a higher success rate with a bone-creating protein, which can be used to augment the maxillary sinus area (in preparation for a dental implant procedure). Researchers from the Georgia Health Sciences University’s Laboratory for Applied Periodontal & Craniofacial Regeneration found out that when the sinus was implanted with bone [...]
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Objet Geometries and Remedent Partnership Create Temporary Veneers
March 3rd, 2011
Global leader in teeth whitening solutions and porcelain veneers, Remedent, has announced a partnership with Objet Geometries – a company leading innovations in the 3D printing for additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping. The partnership between Remedent and Objet Geometries aims to improve the process of fabricating dental veneer try-ins (or temporary dental veneers) , as [...]
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The Strongest Dental Implants – Made from Metallic Glass?
February 22nd, 2011
The Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and Caltech have developed a type of glass that possesses the toughness and strength of steel. This new glass – which can very well make up some of the strongest dental implants - is composed of silver and palladium, combined with minute particles of metalloids. According to the statement issued by Caltech, [...]
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Dental Implants among Surgical Procedures to Grow in Coming Years
February 18th, 2011
Dental implants are among the surgical procedures expected to experience growth in the coming years in North America, according to the global authority on medical technology market intelligence – the Millennium Research Group. Aside from dental implants, other procedures that are expected to experience an increase in the next five years include percutaneous heart valve [...]
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Alcohol-Free Mouthwash Can Decrease Possibility of Pre-Term Birth
February 15th, 2011
Studies by researchers in San Francisco’s annual The Pregnancy Meeting (by the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine) discussed findings which show that using alcohol-free antibacterial mouthwash products decreases the possibility of PTB or preterm birth. According to one of the study’s authors, Marjorie Jeffcoat, D.M.D., the study shows that there is a direct correlation between preterm [...]
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Dental Examinations without Distance Limitations
February 10th, 2011
A pediatric dentist in Rochester, New York’s Eastman Dental Center successfully conducted dental examinations from his computer – with the patients a few miles away from the dentist’s office during the actual examinations. The Tele-dentistry program, which is made possible by the Eastman Dental Center and the Finger Lakes Community and Migrant Health, aims to [...]
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Enzyme Linked to Dental Plaque Sticking to Tooth Surface Decoded
February 8th, 2011
The functional mechanism and structure of the glucansucrase enzyme, which is the enzyme responsible for dental plaque sticking to tooth surfaces (and can cause tooth decay),has been decoded by professors Lubbert Dijkhuizen and Bauke Dijkstra from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. This information can lead to the identification of what substances can prevent [...]
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